We cannot stop now. Occupy or support the occupation. This is from Occupy Salt Lake. He fears that we’ll shape policy? Good.
We must send the message that we are not just in New York City, Chicago, Washington D.C., etc.
We are everywhere.
Every single one of the GOP candidates probably owns this movie.
And can quote it word for word.
Isn’t that a requirement to get into the debates?
It is quite epic:
Just to recap, in less than two months Rick Perry has:
- Suggested that maybe Ben Bernanke should be lynched.
- Declined to back off his contention that Social Security is an unconstitutional Ponzi scheme.
- Called climate change a “contrived phony mess” that was cooked up by scientists who have “manipulated data so that they will have dollars rolling in to their projects.”
- Pissed off the conservative base by defending his decision to (in Michele Bachmann’s immortal words) give “government injections” to “innocent little 12-year-old girls.” Said Perry condescendingly: “What I don’t get is what parents don’t understand about an opt out.”
- Further pissed off the conservative base by suggesting that if you disagree with his policy on in-state tuition for illegal immigrants, “I don’t think you have a heart.”
- Mangled a prepackaged debate attack on Mitt Romney so badly, and then followed up with a statement on Pakistan so inscrutable, that even his supporters started to wonder if he has a three-digit IQ.
- Proposed that U.S. troops should be used to fight Mexican drug lords. In Mexico.
- Had to defend himself against revelations that his family leases a hunting spot called “Niggerhead.”
Should we start taking bets on how much longer Rick Perry lasts? I think he’ll hold out until the first primaries, personally. What’s shocking to me is the defense of the Perry family from supporters. From the original Washington Post article:
“It’s just a name,” said Haskell County Judge David Davis, sitting in his courtroom and looking at a window. “Like those are vertical blinds. It’s just what it was called. There was no significance other than as a hunting deal.”
If Perry continues, I have a feeling he’ll be just a name shortly as well - some failed governor that flamed out spectacularly while running for the presidential nomination.
A just-published bombshell article in the November issue of Bloomberg Markets magazine implicates Koch Industries, the company controlled by Republican mega-donors Charles and David Koch, in dozens of criminal acts around the globe over the past three decades.
According the report, company officials have been caught paying bribes to win contracts, trading with Iran in violation of the U.S. embargo, price-fixing, neglecting safety and ignoring environmental regulations.
The billionaire brothers are major donors to FreedomWorks, the Cato Institute, and dozens of other conservative think-tanks and nonprofits.
Do read the full article. It’s easy to dismiss this as wholly unsurprising, but it’s actually quite an outrage to see the catalog of sins amassed by the Koch brothers and their corporations.
Again, I’m going to suggest if corporations are people, these corporations should be held criminally responsible.
France24 and The Guardian are reporting that, for the first time since 1958, the French Senate will have a left-leaning majority. The victory comes only 7 months prior to presidential and parliamentary elections scheduled for early 2012.
from The Guardian:
With still some seats to count, the Socialist Party declared last night that with its Communist and Green allies, it had won enough seats to take control of the upper house.
A leftist majority could complicate government legislation in the pipeline but not block it, as the National Assembly has the final say.
Symbolically, constitutionalists said, it was nothing less than a “political earthquake”.
“September 25, 2011 is a day to go down in history,” said Jean-Pierre Bel, the Socialist’s leader in the Senate, and likely next speaker in the house.
France’s right-leaning citizens and politicians are, understandably, rattled by these recent developments, in large part because President Sarkozy faces re-election in April 2012. However, some seem to see this as a potentially galvanizing turn of events for French conservatives.
from France24:
“Nicolas Sarkozy will go down in history as the president that lost the right its majority in the Senate,” declared Francois Hollande, favourite to win the Socialist Party’s nomination to run against Sarkozy next year.
“In a way it’s like a premonition of what will happen in 2012,” he said.
Sarkozy’s prime minister, Francois Fillon, admitted the right had suffered from its divisions and that the left had made a “strong breakthrough”.
“The moment of truth will come next spring. The battle begins tonight,” Fillon said in a statement, calling on the right to unite behind Sarkozy’s government in time to turn the tide before the late April vote.
The 15 most disgusting Twitter responses to Troy Davis’ Murder. (via BuzzFeed)
Lots of News Corp. on there and a former congressman (last 5 presented with quote because Tumblr only allows 10 photos in a set apparently)
1. New York Post (Owned by Rupert Murdoch)
2 & 3. Ann Coulter (Gets paid by News Corp.)
4. “Pussy and Heroin” (They seem very proud to be on this list) Their Tumblr
6. Anthony Cumia from the Opie and Anthony show
7. Tammy Bruce (Gets paid by News Corp.)
9. “Jimmiebjr” His website
10. Frank Fleming
11. Tabin
“Women are killed for breaking religious laws that I am told to “coexist” with & people are going crazy abt a convicted cop-killer? #huh?
12. Neal Boortz
“Is Troy Davis dead yet? Can we speed this thing up? I have a drink ready to toast this cop killer gonig charlie tango”
13. Jake Bradford
“Will there ever be a trending RIP for a white cop-killer death row inmate? Maybe the 5th of never……..”
14. Tea Party Organizer Maggie Acerra
“The people so anxious to return this sociopathic cop-killer to the streets don’t live in his neighborhood”
15. White Supremacist David Duke
“Am I the only one who thinks even if Troy Davis wasn’t guilty of this crime he was probably guilty of another? So good riddance!”
The kinds of people who support the death penalty: Bigots, opportunists, ignoramuses.
I don’t normally like to reblog things with this much hate. But it’s good to be reminded of how other people think. When I wonder why we can’t make any progress toward good in this country, I just have to remind myself that we are surrounded by folks who believe in this manner.
It’s only because they’re not corporations, and corporations are people. When corporations love each other very much, they can bundle their money and make SuperPACs of DOOM!
Of course, when the people band together to fight corporate influence and exploitation, that’s wrong. When their organization chooses to donate to a political cause or candidate, that’s corrupt. Yeah, totally makes sense.
People organizing = unpatriotic, corrupt union
Businesses organizing = US Chamber of Commerce.
I believe the Republican candidates’ pinched, crabby view of government’s nature and role is immoral. I believe the fact that poverty has risen sharply over the past decade — as shown by new census data — while the richest Americans have seen their incomes soar is unacceptable. I believe that writing off whole classes of citizens — the long-term unemployed whose skills are becoming out of date, thousands of former offenders who have paid their debt to society, millions of low-income youth ill-served by inadequate schools — is unconscionable.
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Eugene Robinson, in his column: Where are the compassionate conservatives? - The Washington Post Some of us can remember a time when at least some thoughtful conservatives did at least temper their views with compassion, empathy and some semblance of feeling for others beyond their immediate families. Where did those folks go? (via tartantambourine) |
It’s only because they’re not corporations, and corporations are people. When corporations love each other very much, they can bundle their money and make SuperPACs of DOOM!
Of course, when the people band together to fight corporate influence and exploitation, that’s wrong. When their organization chooses to donate to a political cause or candidate, that’s corrupt. Yeah, totally makes sense.
People organizing = unpatriotic, corrupt union
Businesses organizing = US Chamber of Commerce.
Why are left-wing activist groups so keen on registering the poor to vote?
Because they know the poor can be counted on to vote themselves more benefits by electing redistributionist politicians. Welfare recipients are particularly open to demagoguery and bribery.
Registering them to vote is like handing out burglary tools to criminals. It is profoundly antisocial and un-American to empower the nonproductive segments of the population to destroy the country - which is precisely why Barack Obama zealously supports registering welfare recipients to vote.
Because they know the poor can be counted on to vote themselves more benefits by electing redistributionist politicians. Welfare recipients are particularly open to demagoguery and bribery.
Registering them to vote is like handing out burglary tools to criminals. It is profoundly antisocial and un-American to empower the nonproductive segments of the population to destroy the country - which is precisely why Barack Obama zealously supports registering welfare recipients to vote.
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Conservative columnist Matthew Vadum, in his column “Registering the Poor to Vote is Un-American” for The American Thinker. I literally do not know what to say this, other than the subtlety used in the past by folks like Vadum is dead. They do not want those in poverty to vote for fear their rich cronies will no longer be able to buy political clout. The richest 1% have 1% of the vote. 99% of the vote belongs to those outside of the top income brackets. Never fear, Mr. Vadum. Citizens United v. FEC has your back. I’ll tell you what’s un-American: Decrying the empowerment of the impoverished via the last vestiges of the democratic process we have left in this country. To insist that a person is defined by what one owns versus who one is - that’s profoundly un-American. You sir, are attempting to establish a new aristocracy in this country, a pseudo-royalty if you will. I believe the Founding Fathers might have a bigger problem with that than with the poor voting. (via squeetothegee) That is also a quite racist and ageist comment as well as classist because it is well known that blacks voted in historically high numbers (the perceived poor and unproductive and criminal) and the youth did a lot of numbers too (the unproductive, potentially criminal, and deviant). (via strugglingtobeheard) whoa, whoa, whoa. “Registering them to vote is like handing out burglary tools to criminals.” Tell us how you really feel. There’s nothing more frightening than a poor person you can’t own and control, is there? Particularly when that poor person may be a minority, or god forbid an immigrant who by some stroke of luck won his or her citizenship. It is profoundly un-American not to thrive within the economic structure of capitalism. And if you’re nonproductive, why are you still alive? Isn’t there a prison somewhere we can throw you in? Get out of the fucking way, the supermen are busy destroying themselves with greed. (via katmayer) (via ethiopienne) |
